I must have kicked karma's dog in my last life

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Pretty please, yes! *offers bacon cookies*

I can explain it in one of two ways:

1) short version in the thread

2) I can post that part of the novella over in the Literary forum (the completed one was actually divided up into 3 parts but when I originally posted it on my fanfic website, I divided it up into several smaller chapters.)

[greek_jester]

Would you like to know what they did that got them kicked out of the National Honor Society and made Harvard rescind their invitation for these two to attend college?

Pretty please, yes! *offers bacon cookies*

[DGoddessChardonnay]

In high school he was the one that did things he thought was funny.. During my junior year, after the seniors had left due to graduation, it was rumored he was the one calling in the bomb threats that kept us out of class... In the rain. He also had a bad habit of doing shit to people and causing the teacher to call down the victim. It's the typical stuff, only he'd occasionally get caught.

Yeah, sounds pretty lame compared to a pair who took a vintage Eletrolux cannister vacuum and turned it into a miniature rocket booster and let loose a few at the military school across the campus.

But then what they could do with a computer . . .wrote a money transfer program and hid it inside a video game that one could use to actually transfer money with. Wiped out their disinherited uncle's bank account to the tune of $50 million - and that was just the test run.

Then they helped themselves to hiding their Grandad's money - 1.2 billion dollars (imagine 1.2 billion in 1982 dollars - not sure what that would be in today's money.) End up pissing off disinherited uncle and his terrorist cronies (along with the help of a couple of old family friends who happened to be retired spies.)

Would you like to know what they did that got them kicked out of the National Honor Society and made Harvard rescind their invitation for these two to attend college?

[wolfie]

Problem is, it won't work. The kid won't remember what he did wrong. Kids this age are like dogs; you have to correct them right then and there, or it does no good.

Unfortunately in most cases of children misbehaving this badly, the parents (most likely to be in a position to correct them) don't see anything wrong with what their little darlings are doing - and if an outsider tries to correct the kids, the parents will "tear them a new one" - the person trying to correct the kids, that is, after all the kids can do no wrong.

[raudf]

I can't wait to hear that one either.

Inquiring minds want to know.

Not much to tell, honestly. Guy did something stupid with drugs and a gun and got put in prison for at least 10 years. If he behaves... if not, might be the full term.

In high school he was the one that did things he thought was funny.. During my junior year, after the seniors had left due to graduation, it was rumored he was the one calling in the bomb threats that kept us out of class... In the rain. He also had a bad habit of doing shit to people and causing the teacher to call down the victim. It's the typical stuff, only he'd occasionally get caught.

[Sapphire Silk]

Of course, what are the chances the parents are going to be disputing the charges on their credit card? Will your hotel take the time to fight it? It was always hard to make extra charges stick at my hotel, management usually caved.

They're not caving over $1500. That's too much even for corporate to ignore. However, I fully expect the parents to try to fight it. They'll probably dispute the charge with the credit card company, but when the chain gives the CC company copies of the police report and FD report, the charges will be reinstated.

That's good to hear. Of course, all that can be lost with one spineless manager or corporate bigwig...

A spineless manager who caves on this ought to be fired, and probably would be. Ditto for a corporate bigwig. That's real profit being wasted in a charge like that.

The other kids were not much better. I think a strongly-worded letter to their school is in order. And that twit who kept dumping the popcorn on the floor should have been made to kneel down and pick up every single kernel.

Definitely Khiras's hotel should not rent to this coach/team again. The headaches aren't worth it.

Well, $1,500 from KhirasHY's hotel + the fire marshall's fine (figure $500 easily) + whatever the other hotel charged (and you have to figure a few comps there as well) and this could easily run to $3,000 or more.

I would hope a bill this large means Mommy and Daddy Dearest finally get junior some help, or at least some discipline.

Problem is, it won't work. The kid won't remember what he did wrong. Kids this age are like dogs; you have to correct them right then and there, or it does no good.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

We actually had one we did vote like this in my senior class. Needless to say he won't be attending our 20 year reunion this year!

I smell a good story here, spill!!!

I can't wait to hear that one either.

Inquiring minds want to know.

[eltf177]

We actually had one we did vote like this in my senior class. Needless to say he won't be attending our 20 year reunion this year!

I smell a good story here, spill!!!

[raudf]

I'm expecting him to be voted by his senior class Most Likely To Be on The FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.

We actually had one we did vote like this in my senior class. Needless to say he won't be attending our 20 year reunion this year!

[Geek King]

LA4 makes me think of the Warren Zevon song "Excitable Boy". Probably will end the same.

Or Tim Wilson's (Rest his soul) "It Takes a Village (To Raise a Nut)" I bet LA4 will end up like the kid in that song.

[seigus]

LA4 makes me think of the Warren Zevon song "Excitable Boy". Probably will end the same.

[PoliteBoy]

I cannot stand kids in my restuarant. I don't hate them, but when there's rice everywhere, when they stand in the aisles blocking the waiters, and if the teachers don't do crap, I just wanna pour hot tea over them. At least some of the parents have a spine and do something about it.

[Gilhelmi]

The "If I ever caused that much damage" question is inconceivable to me. Why? you might ask.

Because I honestly believe to this very day (and I am 30 years old) that if I ever misbehaved that badly. My Grandmother, who I loved very much, would come back from the grave and beat the intelligence back into me. I know, it sounds crazy, but I swear to still hear my beloved Grandmothers voice telling me to treat others with respect and kindness, just as Christ loves us.

[Jester]

If I had ever done the shit LA4 did--not that it would have ever gotten to that point, mind you, but if it had--my father would have flattened me. And I'm not being figurative or methaphorical here. I mean he would have flattened me. Even after he passed, my stepfather would have flattened me, or my mother, while not exactly assertive, would have definitely reeled me in.

As for the popcorn kid, had he done that to me, and used that dopey line on me, I would have given him the Death Stare and calmly and coolly said, "If by one job you mean not beating you to death with this broom, I'd say I'm doing a damn good job of that. Wouldn't you?" My experience with dealing with people like that suggests to me that, after that, he would have either run off quickly, or immediately started picking up the popcorn himself.

My Death Stare is very effective.

[TimmyHate]

If I ever caused that much to be charged to my parents, not only would I not be able to sit down for the rest of my life, but it would be YEARS before I stopped paying them back for that.

Likewise. Hell knowing my parents, they would have charged me interest at the credit card rate until I paid it back.